Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-16
NEWS OF THEDAY.

The Prince of Wales arrived at Homburg
Yesterday and visited tho Empress Augusta.
During June and July 10000 persons died
from cholera in the northwest provinces OF
India.
Emil Schoenberg, the Philadelphia brow.
err, has disappeared. His liabilities are
100000
The Hon. E. E. Jackson has written let
ter accepting the democratic nomination for
Governor of Maryland.
The Hon. James U. Dennis, of Somerset
county, Md, raised one thousand bushels of
wheat on twenty one acres of land.
A fire at Hinton. W. Va, yesterday, de-
stroyed several buildings ; loss estimated at
between $4,000 and sos, 900; partly insured.
Judge Samuel Hall. of Atlanta, member
OF the Georgia Supreme Court, is critically
i'll at Ashevile, n. c., from second attack
of paralysis.
From 1870 to 1850 blindness among the
people of the United States increased 40
per cent, while the population only in
creased 80 per cent.
The Volunteer crossed the line at 2:20 p.
m. yesterday, winning the yacht race.
twelve minutes ahead of the Puritan. The
Mayfower was third.
By winning game from Detroit yester-
day the Chicago baseball club ties the De
lroit for first place, each having won fifty
games and lost thirty-two.
According 10 the Chicago Tribune $50
murders were committed in this country
during the month of July. This exceeds
any monthly total for years.
Maud S. is still the queen of the turf, re-.
tired though she be. Last Saturday she
made mile with the greatest ease in 2:l0},
and Murphy, her driver, says that he can
make her go in FOG or 2:07, if Mr.. Bonner
will let him.
The Secretary of the Navy submitted to
the President the awarding of contract
for building one Of the new cruisers to the
Union Iron Works at San Francisco, and
upon his decision made award of the con.
tracts for all the vessels to be built.
Mrs. John Herbert, of Joliet, ILL.,, went to
sleep on Christmas Eve last year, and at last
accounts was still asleep, having lain in q
cataleptic state for two hundred and seven
teen days. She is 81 years old. and was
stout when she went to sleep, but is thin
| now.
During the ten days of the socalled boy
colt against Compartment & Co., the furni.
ture dealers, of New York, they have done
about $4,000 worth more of business than
during the corresponding period last year.
This is due to public protest against the
attack on the business of the firm.
VIM T. Goodwin, who is charged with
shooting Charles Hipkins in the jaw while
Hopkins was playing ghost in Perot's brick
yard, Baltimore, was yesterday recommit.
ted by Justice Cashmyer for q hearing on
August %. The hearing was postponed on
account of the absence of Hopkins, who has
not yet recovered sufficiently to appear in
| the case.
Aaron A. Sargent, OK United States Sem
otor, who died in San Francisco on Sunday
last, was 60 years Of age. He served three
terms in the House of Representatives and
was elected to the United States Senate in
1873 serving full term. Early in Mr..
Garfeld's administration he was appointed
Minister to Germany, but as diplomat at
Berlin he fell below the mark, and succeed
ed only in provoking quarrel with Bis
marck on the hog question.
The very short crop of peaches is causing
increased anxiety among the Baltimore
packers, who are bordering where to get
enough fruit to commence business. On
August 10 last year all the packing houses
were in full operation and employing large
numbers of hands, who generally depend
upon that class of labor. AT present but
three or four OF the thirty-odd establish
ments in that city have made start on the
small quantities they could get